Comments on: Tank Graveyard in Ukraine

By: AboveTheBestSir

AboveTheBestSir — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 07:27:31 +0000

These are old variants of the T-80. A major plant was in the Ukraine and they now still produce the tank under the designation T-84. This is a scrapping yard. Those tanks are gutted. Ready to be cut up with torches and recycled.

By: VALB Wolvenworks

VALB Wolvenworks — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 19:59:05 +0000

looks like a tanker/collector’s nightmare. rusty, (most likely) unusable tanks everywhere. looking at it gives me creeps

By: bary111

bary111 — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 08:07:12 +0000

It looks like “Zavod 311″ map from Battlefield 4 :) Anyway, i wish i could see this place in real…

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 22:41:48 +0000

Why? Not like that gunk is going to run away from Cherno and jump out of your closet like a bad horror movie serial killer. :/

By: ExoNut

ExoNut — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 21:52:38 +0000

Fuck, don’t even tell me about that, I can’t sleep after that ;__;

By: Keeshan

Keeshan — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 20:38:44 +0000

“Their place should be in museums…” Happy now?
There’s no shame to have in a museum more then 10 tanks of the same type…for example americans and their Sherman tanks.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 20:07:41 +0000

Military sites tend to be varying degrees of restricted access and classified information already on general principle even in “open societies” where for example conscripts who served in them have no compunctions about discussing details with all and sundry. And the bureaucracies tend to be slow to completely disinterested in lifting such restrictions if there isn’t some specific reason to.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 20:03:23 +0000

Money.
This crap ain’t free to maintain, and I’m willing to bet Ukraine was left with WAY more ex-Soviet hardware than its military could find any use for – nevermind now within the confines of the defense budgets.

By: 23r0_NA

23r0_NA — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 20:02:08 +0000

You think THAT place is creepy? You should check out the powerplant itself; they still give guided tours of the Reactor Four sarcophagus on occasion. Of course you don’t want to go down into the basement though (where there’s still 180 metric tons of melted corium, which is still lethally radioactive and can kill in minutes)

By: 23r0_NA

23r0_NA — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 20:00:12 +0000

Maybe it’s more of a case of people knowing what questions not to ask if they don’t want to be given a government-funded ‘permanent vacation’.